BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC In this age of digital love “connections” on Tinder, Match.com, and Grinder, meeting someone new via an old-fashion face-to-face bonding (without the benefit of pre-screening) may be just what the doctor ordered. Or in the case...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Moonlight and Magnolias is pure guilty pleasure as we watching skilled actors in their apogee, uproariously “creating” some of the most cherished moments in cinematic lore.. As I nestled into the acclimation of 1939 Hollywood and...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Contemporary playwright Lauren Gunderson is smart, successful, southern, and very confused about being smart, successful, and southern. In her play The Heath, she shares those confusions—and many others—with an audience she readily acknowledges is right in...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Indisputable hottest ticket in Spartanburg right now is happening at the Chapman Cultural Center this weekend with the nostalgic biographical musical about a country music legend in Spartanburg Little Theatre’s Hank Williams: Lost Highway....
BY DR. KATE ROARKDRAMA CRITIC There’s a line near the beginning of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the best Broadway songs being like short plays. Of course, Carole King didn’t write her songs for Broadway, but this line...
Required Viewing for all Miranda Die-Hards! BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC SPAMILTON: An American Parody is an audacious send-up of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative process and Hamilton fever…and the Broadway musicals affected by the success of the box office phenomenon. Hamilton...
